I'm excited to visit @sharonquinsaat.bsky.social @grinnellcollege.bsky.social next week and share the backstory of #TheLoyaltyTrap and why liberal arts learning is crucial for doing meaningful and impactful work. If you are near Grinnell, please pop in!

Présentation du nouveau livre, *Le Coopérisme : Une théorie politique, économique, et sociale* qui vient de paraitre au éditions MSH : www.canal-u.tv/chaines/fmsh... | @lab-iris.bsky.social @ehess.fr @editionsmsh.bsky.social

Alexandra Natapoff, the author of "Snitching: Criminal Informants and the Erosion of American Justice," is featured on Last Week Tonight with John Oliver as he discusses police stings and the roles of confidential informants. Watch the full clip here: buff.ly/oXhWJOo @lastweektonight.com

#TBT to 1978! From gatekeeping in NYC art galleries to the rise of mass culture in France and the evolution of country music, this #TBT revisits “The Production of Culture.” Explore the social roots of our symbolic world and dissect how art and media are actually made. www.jstor.org/stable...#TBT

Nancy Fraser's remembrance of Habermas is really great. At once respectful and critical. Fraser is really important to me for her feminist critique of the system-lifeworld dichotomy that is found in nearly all cultural pessimist technology criticism. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/ma...

After the Super Bowl ad backlash, Ring quietly ended its partnership with license plate reader company Flock Safety. Andrew Guthrie Ferguson spoke with @suzannesmalley.bsky.social about what that moment revealed, and what it didn't, about how far police surveillance already goes.

Excerpt from Your Data Will Be Used Against You Policing in the Age of Self-Surveillance by Andrew Guthrie Ferguson @wired.com @nyupress.bsky.social

Timed to the start of the London Book Fair, I will give an overview of the book publishing industry this evening at NYU London.

Today at NYU London, James Moran and I will lead a student workshop on improving nonfiction writing.

Author of Racial Exhaustion @ralinajoseph.bsky.social on the need for collective accountability for community success.

This March, we're honoring the women who have made history. Save 30% on all titles in our Women's History Month collection now.

There are 21 newly updated subject collections available on nyupress.org/books/.

I am so excited to be part of this incredible group of incoming Russell Sage Foundation @russellsagefdn.bsky.social Visiting Scholars.

Today, we're launching the Obama Presidency Oral History—a comprehensive record of the Obama presidency through the voices of officials, artists, organizers and people from all walks of life. 462 Interviews, 1100 hours of audio and video, 6 years in the making. obamaoralhistory.columbia.edu

If you're local to NYC on Tues, Feb 17 find out how civility operates across culture, identity, media, and the arts featuring NYU community members Charlton McIlwain, Kwame Anthony Appiah, and Catharine Stimpson, moderated by Eric Klinenberg, @ipk.bsky.social @nyupress.bsky.social

Jade Power-Sotomayor explains how Bad Bunny takes the Super Bowl half time stage as an entertainer and activist.

Some strong @aupresses.bsky.social member cover designs this month, including @nyupress.bsky.social

"What links these essays is the seriousness with which the authors approach civility. This is a book that assumes the reader will take the time to grapple with the complexities of the various arguments and learn something from each of them." @forbes.com

In his forthcoming book, Your Data Will Be Used Against You, George Washington University Law School professor Andrew Guthrie Ferguson explores how sensor-driven technologies, social media monitoring, and artificial intelligence can be weaponized against democratic values and personal freedoms.

"The fact that Resistance 2.0 is expanding its tactics gives me hope. Americans are finding their voices and their power to push back against burgeoning autocracy." @fisherdanar.bsky.social

UNC Press is hiring a history editor. 👇

We're proud to share that "Black Panther Woman" by Mary Frances Phillips has been named a Finalist for the 2026 ASALH Book Prize! Congratulations to all for this worthy recognition! @asalh-bhm.bsky.social

Looking forward to attending #mla26 offering some great books in literature and poetry from nyupress.bsky.social and featuring our partners at fonografeditions.bsky.social. 👉 nyupress.org/search-resul...

The "Academic Publishing in a New Era" feature in the latest issue of @contexts.org magazine includes my short piece "A Service, Not a Product." journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

In this episode of WUNC Due South, author of WHY BLACK PEOPLE DIE SOONER Joseph L. Graves, Jr. interprets the gap in life expectancy between Black and white Americans and debunks the misconception that race can dictate disease prevalence.

Judith Butler, Homi Bhabha, Gayatri Spivak, Cornel West, Susan Buck-Morss, Seyla Benhabib, Bruno Bosteels, and more will be joining us for Hegel 13/13 @columbiauniversity.bsky.social in the new year 2026! Mark your calendars: hegel1313.law.columbia.edu

💥 Citizen Scholar made the list of book forums for next year's @asanews.bsky.social meetings. 💥 Thanks to @nvancleve.bsky.social, @davidsmeyer.bsky.social, @daniellaurison.bsky.social, and @jessicacalarco.com for agreeing to discuss! And @columbiaup.bsky.social www.asanet.org/annual-meeti...

"Just below the media and political fray, flagship research institutions are forging ahead with great determination." Why Flagships Are Winning, by Ian F. McNeely author of THE UNIVERSITY UNFETTERED: PUBLIC HIGHER EDUCATION IN AN AGE OF DISRUPTION tinyurl.com/5989zc3d @columbiaup.bsky.social

Another great @lithub.com.web.brid.gy round-up of the year's best in book cover design.

"Federal attacks on elite private universities, and a few public ones, might lead one to believe that our entire system of higher education is buckling under pressure. But just below the media and political fray, flagship research institutions are forging ahead with great determination." Ian McNeely

Where did data science come from? In his new book, ASA member Philipp Brandt @scpo-research.bsky.social examines how computer experts and hackers integrated established technologies and methodologies—and some questionable ideas—into a profession. @columbiaup.bsky.social

Two @nyupress.bsky.social books on this list

New from me: In the New Republic @newrepublic.com, I wrote that we should refuse to choose between the easy way and the hard way to boost birth rates.

Congratulations to Laura Helton, whose book, SCATTERED & FUGITIVE THINGS: HOW BLACK COLLECTORS CREATED ARCHIVES & REMADE HISTORY, published in Black Lives in the Diaspora series, was shortlisted for the 2024 MLA First Book Prize! bit.ly/44Tk91U @lehelton.bsky.social @columbiaup.bsky.social

Great piece to mark the 50th anniversary of Hannah Arendt's death by @jenszalai.bsky.social - we are very lucky that she has continued to write about ideas and new non-fiction for the @nytimes.com all these years: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/b...

"Though the prospective closure of BUP may appear a blip on the radar of a fast-changing landscape of higher education, it is yet another warning bell signaling the erosions of shared governance on campuses nationwide." Jeremy Chow

Great to see Rachelle Rahmé's Mercurial, or Is That Liberty on Lit Hub's list of 100 Notable Small Press Books of 2025: lithub.com/100-notable-...

If you’re watching A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving and happen to notice how funky Guaraldi got with the music, this post is for you

How has support for political violence in America shifted over the past year and who has the highest levels of support? My new piece at @brookings.edu provides answers by comparing data from #NoKings2.0 with a national survey fielded right after: www.brookings.edu/articles/wha...

We're enjoying the African Studies conference. Visit us in booth #303 to view books from presses such as @dukepress.bsky.social @lynneriennerpub.bsky.social @pennpress.bsky.social @princetonupress.bsky.social Wits University Press/@nyupress.bsky.social & many more! #africana #asa2025

It's 75 years strong for @utexaspress.bsky.social.

"When any administration announces its intention to shutter a press, it’s basically abdicating its responsibility to the network that supports the scholarly production of its own faculty as well as scholars everywhere." - Peter Berkery, @aupresses.bsky.social

Read everything Joseph L. Graves, Jr. writes.

Join Joseph L. Graves Jr. for a book talk about WHY BLACK PEOPLE DIE SOONER tomorrow, Nov. 19 at 1 PM. Details available at:

We're excited to share that Andrew Kinney will join UNC Press as the new W. Hodding Carter III Executive Editor 🎉 "UNC Press has always led the way in the publication of American history . . . I’m so excited to be joining such a remarkable team." Read more on the blog 👇 bit.ly/4i7t3yb

Join Matthew Facciani for a book talk about MISGUIDED at The Seminary Co-op today at 4 PM. RSVP now! buff.ly/csOhln2

Tomorrow in Chicago, I’ll be talking with Dr. Michael Cohen about my new book, Misguided. We’ll explore why false beliefs take hold, how our identities and social networks influence what we believe, and what we can actually do to push back against misinformation today www.semcoop.com/event/matthe...

Fabulous day with @philipncohen.com, hosting two talks @sussexunibusiness.bsky.social. @antoinevernet.com and I (big nerds that we are 🤓) even had our books signed! Thank you so much for including us on your sabbatical tour.

This UP week we #TeamUP with @nyupress.bsky.social to discuss food in the city! Check out our executive director Lisa Quinn's post: buff.ly/WnfizBO